http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink - Idea Comments Feed Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/905 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:16:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Comment on: Re: What needs to change in academia? http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/education/905 His appeal to the "informed" decision making with out defining what it means to be informed is an empty cop out. This guy made a false dichotomy and spent the whole time talking about it as if it went without saying. It seems to be a thinly veiled shot at the social sciences to me. Bigthink Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:19:56 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/education/905/#2471 Comment on: Re: What needs to change in academia? http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/education/905 He seems to be creating a false dichotomy here. All good empirical scientists that I know expect theory and data to work together. After all, the very definition of a scientific theory is that it is the best explanation of the empirical data. Bigthink Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:10:25 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/education/905/#637